Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Not Arkham Asylum, City, Knight or Origins. Just plain old Batman. Based on Tim Burton's film of the same name, Ocean Software's game was typical of licensed products of the time, taking key scenes from the film and turning them into tidy little…

Gotham by Gaslight - aka Victorian Batman vs Jack the Ripper - was a big deal for comics back in the early 1990s, what with it both transplanting Bats into a new setting and being a self-contained tale rather than the usual unending episodic fare. Sadly it's been largely ignored in this modern age of ultra high-tech Batmen and Grant Morrison miring poor ol' Bruce…

This is what happens when you get busy. I did not know that Gotham City Imposters, Monolith's inventive multiplayer FPS where players are copycats of Batman and his various villains, has a defensive gnome that tazers people. Where I was and what I was doing at the time to not know I don't know, but I now begrudge whatever it was I don't remember doing.…

Batman: Arkham City is now playable on Steam, after a week of mild confusion over its availability in various regions. However, more pressing concerns have arisen now that it's been properly released: the DX11 support seems to be as broken as the bat after a few rounds with Bane, rendering Brucie's latest adventure unplayable with the current DirectX package.

There's a launch trailer appeared for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Launch, that is, for the console version of course. The PC version is being delayed until 15th September, so it can be filled with PhysX magic. In the meantime, of course, you can play the demo, and if you're thinking of upgrading your graphics card for the occasion, NVidia has just announced they're giving away a…